MAMUJU, Indonesia: Relief workers struggled Tuesday to clear the rubble of collapsed buildings on an Indonesian island where a strong earthquake killed at...
MAMUJU, Indonesia: Relief workers struggled Tuesday to clear the rubble of collapsed buildings on an Indonesian island where a strong earthquake killed at...
Moscow: A candidate COVID-19 vaccine known as EpiVacCorona, Russia's second to be registered, proved "100% effective" in early-stage trials, Russian consumer health watchdog...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will extend work-from-home arrangements for civil servants by a week until Jan. 27, the government said on Tuesday, as...
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as director of national intelligence is pledging she’ll never let politics affect decision-making in the collection and...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to agree with regional leaders on extending a lockdown for most shops and schools until mid-February...
New Delhi: India is considering revising its foreign investment rules for e-commerce, three sources and a government spokesman told Reuters, a move that...
TOKYO: At least 134 cars were involved in a series of crashes in Japan on Tuesday when a snow storm struck a stretch...
Tokyo: Japan's health minister watched a demonstration on Tuesday of a prototype automated COVID-19 testing machine that uses a robotic arm to take...
LONDON: Two British hospitals are using blockchain technology to keep tabs on the storage and supply of temperature-sensitive COVID-19 vaccines, the companies behind...
Taipei: Taiwan on Tuesday cancelled a major festival during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday as the island reported four locally transmitted cases...
Rabat: Morocco’s health ministry confirmed on Monday its first imported case of the more contagious variant of the novel coronavirus first discovered in...
BOGOTA: Colombia's capital Bogota will impose nightly curfews for almost two weeks, Mayor Claudia Lopez said on Monday, while the whole city will...
South Africa’s genomic scientists have found the new coronavirus variant driving the country’s resurgence of new cases is about 50% more transmissible than...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: China is battling the worst outbreak of COVID-19 since March 2020, with one province posting a record daily rise in cases, as...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is likely to grant clemency to rapper Lil Wayne on Tuesday in a final wave of pardons and...
MONTREAL - Canada said on Monday it will lift a near two-year flight ban on Boeing Co's 737 MAX on Jan. 20, joining...
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was criticised in parliament on Monday for refusing to commit to the renewal of a temporary...
WASHINGTON - Federal authorities arrested a retired firefighter and a fashion student, both from New York, and a man from Iowa on Monday...
